Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

We are our best guide and a friend. Our problems arise when we start looking for one elsewhere.

If I can't have your babies, I'll damn sure deliver them!

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

Stand up and walk out of your history

I try to do better than what I have before.

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.